Yours Unfaithfully NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (72)
See it if You enjoy Mint Theater productions. Always well done-great sets-interesting forgotten plays. Max Von Essen a treasure. Wonderful twist end.
Don't see it if You want today's language. If you want plays about kids on the edges of society this week s not that. Read more
See it if Interested in the topic of jealousy and romantic love. It reminded me of a Wallace Shawn play -- lots of conversation about a topic.
Don't see it if Topic not for children. And they would find it baffling and boring anyway! Read more
See it if You are interested in an unknown play that deals in ideas and morality.
Don't see it if You prefer contemporary and fast moving work Read more
See it if You enjoy an old fashioned 3 act play that is relevant and satisfying, and will leave you with something to discuss.
Don't see it if You like action more than dialogue.
See it if You would like to see the pros and cons of an open marriage demonstrated in a play. Your enjoy period clothing. This is set in 1933.
Don't see it if Your offended by open relationships. You get confused when you hear references to cricket and don't understand it.
See it if you'd enjoy an interesting premise - the search for happiness in open infidelity - examining the disconnect between our logic & emotions.
Don't see it if you'd be dissatisfied with a predictable destination for a journey that's not as satisfying in its trajectory as it could have been.
See it if You like thoughtful plays in period-piece settings
Don't see it if You only like simple topics with clearly resolved endings
See it if enjoy British period dramas, like plays about marital relationships.
Don't see it if you become easily bored with dated material, find family dramas tiresome Read more
Critic Reviews (25)
"I never thought that a previously unproduced play written the year I was born by someone whose name I’d never heard would still be so emotionally and intellectually riveting and relevant four score and four years later, but Miles Malleson’s 'Yours Unfaithfully' easily accomplishes that feat and more…It is a truthful, funny and touching play–a complex play about complex characters with great opposing facial and body language under Jonathan Bank’s subtle but clear direction."
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"I really enjoyed ‘Yours Unfaithfully,’ so much so that I almost truly loved it. When a play is well-written, a great deal of the work that confronts an ensemble is already done…Malleson’s script advances the story well and with wit, but only after a rather lengthy exposition scene...I heard words that indicated all these characters have quite a bit of affection for one another, but I would have gladly indulged reasons why expressed in stolen non-verbal queues such as lingering looks."
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"The play is more sex positive and forward thinking than anything to come out in the last decade...Even if 'Yours Unfaithfully' isn’t 'contributing' anything new to the form, or saying anything 'important,' its very existence is a political statement that proclaims only we should be allowed to decide what to do with our bodies and how to fulfill our pleasure...The Mint Theater company has put together a remarkable production anchored by Gray and Von Essen."
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"It examines with intelligence and sensitivity, but few emotional fireworks, the ramifications of the once scandalous idea of open marriage...The script's appealing promise dissipates into talky artificiality, largely, I believe, because of its otherwise capable actors being out of their depth; instead of true Malleson we get faux-Coward. Malleson's play should only receive another staging if it can find a cast...that can carry off its English savoir-faire and, most particularly, its accents."
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"'Yours Unfaithfully' is a definite find…What happens as the final curtain approaches in Malleson’s acerbic comedy will not be revealed, but it’s absolutely perfect...If Malleson wasn’t the exactly right man for his time, he may still be a man for 2017. He’s astute at understanding the complications that arise when men and women blithely place themselves above bourgeois attitudes…To bring this portrait of an alternate design for living to pungent life, Bank couldn’t have found a better cast."
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"For all its 'shocking' stance, 'Yours Unfaithfully' is a fairly conventional play...The introduction of a conventional moral compass is actually the new concept that the playwright brings in as he tweaks the amoral social comedy employed by Wilde and Shaw...It doesn't entirely leave the realm of the lightweight, but it adds some gravitas to the proceedings...The acting, under Bank's direction, is of the high quality we've come to expect from the Mint...Another winner for the Mint."
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"A delightful look at marriage and fidelity...Bank's staging is delectable as he keeps this drawing-room comedy moving at a clip. The cast is exquisite with just the right amount of everything...Malleson has a way with words and his outlook on sex, infidelity and open marriage is just as relevant today...In a time when the world seems out of control, it was nice to be captivated and slip into another time and place. Make sure you catch this sublime endeavor."
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"The staging by director Jonathan Bank and the acting by the cast of five convey an air of sophistication to the plot and discourse...The intelligent conversation written by Malleson is perfectly captured as the cast members do justice to it under Bank’s direction that highlights the outward sincerity but underlying angst. Banks and his cast play it straight, not reaching for laughs, but letting the seriousness itself communicate amusement at the complications created."
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